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🇯🇵 Kenta Yamashita

Racing driver from Japan. Super GT, TGR Team au Tom's. One-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Kenta Yamashita
Born
3 August 1995(b. 1995)
Nationality
Japan
Current team
TGR Team au Tom's
Series
Super GT
Status
Active
Championships
12024
Career wins
13
Career podiums
30
Career starts
152
Career DNFs
6
Racer Rating
6,267
Kenta Yamashita
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
6,267
Rank 100 of 38,983 indexed, +280 this season
FIA Categorisation
Platinum
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Kenta Yamashita is a racing driver from Japan who competes in Super GT for TGR Team au Tom's. Yamashita is a one-time champion (2024), with 13 wins and 30 podiums from 152 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 6,267 ranks Yamashita 100th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2026 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
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Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
2026-05-03Fuji GT500Super GTP1+111
2026-04-11Okayama GT500Super GTP1+119
2026-04-03MotegiSuper FormulaP7+50
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+142TI Aida 2019Super FormulaP1
+141Macau 2016Formula 3 MacauP4
+137Motegi 2020Super FormulaP2
+135Autopolis 2018Super GTP3
+134Buriram 2018Super GTP3
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Okayama6 starts+57
Buriram4 starts+31
Macau7 starts+17
Twin Ring Motegi5 starts+17
Struggles
Sportsland SUGO5 starts-19
Fuji34 starts-11
Suzuka32 starts-10
Sugo11 starts-10
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2026▸Super GTTGR Team au Tom's222000—+2306,267
▸Super FormulaKCMG100000—+50
2025▸Super FormulaKondo Racing1201010P12−3355,987
▸Super GTTGR Team au Tom's723000P2−89
2024▸Super FormulaKondo Racing902010P7+1306,410
▸Super GTTGR Team au Tom's833020P1+361
2023▸Super FormulaKondo Racing901100P8+1245,919
▸Super GTTGR Team Eneos Rookie801000P5+180
2022▸Super FormulaKondo Racing1000200P13−2675,615
▸Super GTTGR Team Eneos Rookie812010P5+126
2021▸Super GTTGR Team Eneos Rookie813010P5−185,756
▸Super FormulaKondo Racing700000P14−241
2020▸Super FormulaKondo Racing601000P6+3415,835
▸Super GTTGR Team Keeper Tom's301010P14+171
▸WECHigh Class Racing300100—−429
2019▸Super GTLexus Team LeMans WAKO'S824010P2+3245,852
▸Super FormulaKondo Racing712000P4↑725+224
▸WECHigh Class Racing400000P20−500
2018▸Super GTLexus Team Wedssport Bandoh802100P10+276,098
2017▸Super GTVivaC Team Tsuchiya812000P4↑400−995,098
▸Formula 3 MacauB-MAX Racing Team100000—+7
2016▸Formula 3 MacauThreeBond with T-Sport200000—+2735,419
▸Super GTVivaC Team Tsuchiya100000P20−102
2015▸Super GTPorsche Team KTR800100P17−2784,653
▸Formula 3 MacauTOM'S200000—−62
2014▸Formula 3 MacauTOM'S200000—+3,6084,958
Recent coverage
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Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Yamashita finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇯🇵 Tomoki Nojiri6,152123517241%
🇯🇵 Tadasuke MakinoFIA Gold6,639115595651%
🇯🇵 Nirei FukuzumiFIA Gold5,448108644459%
🇯🇵 Sho TsuboiFIA Platinum6,576107495846%
🇯🇵 Naoki YamamotoFIA Platinum6,244106515548%
🇯🇵 Yuhi SekiguchiFIA Gold5,715102604259%
🇯🇵 Yuji KunimotoFIA Platinum4,810102772575%
🇯🇵 Toshiki OyuFIA Gold5,68394553959%
🇯🇵 Mitsunori TakaboshiFIA Gold5,46692632968%
🇯🇵 Kazuya OshimaFIA Platinum5,51991622968%
🇬🇧 Lando NorrisFIA Platinum, 4× champion8,77521150%
🇬🇧 George RussellFIA Platinum, 3× champion8,761220100%
🇯🇵 Alex PalouFIA Platinum, 4× champion7,65996367%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 38,983 drivers indexed
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98🇵🇱 Robert KubicaWEC6,274
99🇺🇸 Matt CampbellIMSA WeatherTech6,270
100🇯🇵 Kenta YamashitaSuper GT6,267
101🇺🇸 Tyler ReddickNASCAR Cup Series6,263
102🇲🇽 Daniel SuarezNASCAR Cup Series6,260
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105🇦🇺 Jamie WhincupSupercars Championship6,251
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Kenta Yamashita is a semi-professional sportscar driver rated 7,080, placing him among elite professionals; his rating reflects a driver who wins regularly in the strongest fields and whose record stands at the sharp end of factory sportscar competition. He holds FIA Platinum grading, the highest categorisation within GT and endurance racing, denoting a full professional competing at the top level of that discipline. Yamashita won the Super GT championship in 2024, his primary series across 75 starts yielding 11 wins and 21 podiums for TGR Team au Tom's from 2015 onwards. His career spans sportscar and single-seater racing; he contested 15 Super Formula rounds from 2017 to 2025 without victory but scored 3 podiums, and made brief attempts at Formula 3 Macau and the World Endurance Championship. Across 104 career starts his average finishing position stands at P9.9.[1]

Yamashita operates in a competitive peer group of established professionals. His most frequent rivals include Tomoki Nojiri, rated 7,059 and the 2024 Super Formula champion, against whom Yamashita holds an even 41-41 head-to-head record in 82 shared races. He has raced extensively with Naoki Yamamoto, rated 7,230 and a three-time Super GT champion, finishing ahead in 34 races but behind in 44 across 78 shared outings. Against Yuhi Sekiguchi, rated 6,805 and a 2021 Super GT champion, Yamashita trails 38-43 in 81 races together. These balanced records against multiple elite-level rivals characterise a driver at the upper tier of international sportscar competition but not dominating it. Notably, Yamashita has finished ahead of drivers of generational calibre; he beat Formula 1 world champion Lando Norris once and George Russell, a Formula 1 frontrunner, twice, though these remain isolated results against drivers operating in far stronger single-seater categories.[2]

Yamashita remains active in Super GT for 2026, having won at Okayama in the season opener. His profile is that of a committed factory professional in Japanese sportscar racing, a driver whose 11 wins and 21 podiums place him solidly in the field's upper echelon but whose head-to-head records against repeated rivals show him competitive rather than clearly dominant among his peer group.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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